[wildfly-dev] Module aliases and deprecation

[Sanne Grinovero]

On 4 May 2016 at 13:44, David M. Lloyd <david.lloyd at redhat.com> wrote:
> You can't add properties to alias modules IIRC.
>
> If you want to have deprecated/unsupported/etc. for a module, then
> instead of an alias, create an empty module with the old name that
> imports and re-exports the desired target module.  Then put the
> properties on this empty module.

Thanks David, that was very helpful!

> On 05/04/2016 07:32 AM, Tomaž Cerar wrote:
>> I understand that, so just add that property to alias module.
>>
>> But I think that adding that metadata to alias will *not* result in WARN
>> message at boot time if anyone is using the module.
>> AFAIR doing ModuleLoader.loadModule(aliasModule)
>> will return the module to which alias is pointing to, as result we
>> cannot read metadata of the alias directly.
>> David can correct me about this.
>>
>> On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 2:19 PM, Sanne Grinovero <sanne at hibernate.org
>> <mailto:sanne at hibernate.org>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi Tomaz,
>>     the module is not deprecated: the module-alias is.
>>
>>     In other words, I wish to deprecate the "old name" only.
>>
>>     Thanks,
>>     Sanne
>>
>>
>>     On 4 May 2016 at 13:08, Tomaž Cerar <tomaz.cerar at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:tomaz.cerar at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>     > add extra properties to module.xml
>>     >
>>     > for deprecated
>>     >
>>     > <properties>
>>     >     <property name="jboss.api" value="deprecated"/>
>>     > </properties>
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > should do it.
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Sanne Grinovero <sanne at hibernate.org <mailto:sanne at hibernate.org>> wrote:
>>     >>
>>     >> Hello,
>>     >>
>>     >> I'm renaming some modules intended for WildFly users. To minimize
>>     >> impact on existing users, I'm including module-aliases using the old
>>     >> name, to resolve to the new module ids.
>>     >>
>>     >> Is there a way to mark such an alias as "deprecated" to encourage
>>     >> people moving to the new naming scheme?
>>     >>
>>     >> Thanks,
>>     >> Sanne
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